...After the order was issued, the main force of the independent regiment took advantage of the darkness to keep the team moving and moved towards the Japanese stronghold.
Soon we approached the barbed wire fence and the water-filled ditch blockade, which was the outermost defense of the Japanese stronghold.
Kong Jie led two commandos to the barbed wire fence early in the morning, and met Wang Leihu, Shen Quan and his party from the position where the commandos entered.
"Captain!"
"Captain!"
After calling in low voices one after another, the three battalion commanders finally felt relieved when they finally saw their regimental commander alive.
Kong Jie smiled and scolded: "Okay, why are you acting like a bitch and being sentimental? The artillery tower has been captured, and the defense outside the Japanese stronghold is completely blind. I and my team members have just broken down the barbed wire fence. A large opening was set up with wooden planks, allowing the main force to quickly block it through barbed wire and trenches, and then use the turret as a bunker to enter."
"yes!"
Under the dark night.
As Kong Jie said, what the Japanese stronghold relies on most is the vigilance and firepower of the peripheral gun towers.
Once the turrets of this Changpo stronghold are successfully removed, the entire Changpo stronghold's security and peripheral defenses will be completely paralyzed.
It's like a tiger that has had its teeth pulled out and its claws smoothed, leaving only an empty frame.
There were not many Japanese and puppet troops stationed at the Changpo stronghold. According to the daily inspections of the reconnaissance platoon, there was only a Japanese reinforcement team in the stronghold, perhaps fifty or sixty people, plus a company of the Imperial Association Army. The total strength of this garrison is less than 200.
It just relies on the solid defense of two gun towers on weekdays.
It is no exaggeration to say that if they were to forcibly capture the Changpo stronghold in the daytime, relying on the absolute defense of the two gun towers and the abundant ammunition on hand, the Japanese could even block the attack of a main regiment of the Eighth Route Army, which was scarce in ammunition.
Only then were the Japanese, Japanese and puppet troops in the Changpo stronghold able to guard the main road, and the Eighth Route Army was not in a position to launch an attack rashly.
This time, the 386th Brigade suddenly felt determined to uproot the Changpo stronghold. Naturally, there was a reason.
The Japanese's Changpo stronghold guarded the main traffic routes in the local area. Whether it was ordinary people or caravans passing by, they would be exploited and squeezed by the Japanese and puppet troops in the stronghold.
Coupled with the vicious layout of the Japanese, the Changpo stronghold located here is like a nail driven into the key point of the 386th Brigade base area, greatly reducing the scope of activities of the Eighth Route Army.
This is a cancer. In the words of the brigade commander, it must be removed, otherwise the Japanese will use this cancer to make the 386 Brigade extremely ill.
In order to successfully eradicate the Japanese stronghold in Changpo, the brigade commander also made various arrangements.
First, the independent regiment led by Kong Jie was responsible for the main offensive task of attacking the Changpo stronghold.
Secondly, the new regiment led by Li Yunlong was responsible for blocking the Japanese reinforcements supporting the Changpo stronghold.
In addition, in order to attract the attention of the Japanese and indirectly cover the independent regiment's attack on the Changpo stronghold, the brigade commander also sent the main force of the 772nd Regiment to feint to attack another large stronghold near the Changpo stronghold in the past few days.
It can be said that all preparations are in place. The final east wind depends on how Kong Jie conducts the command to capture the Changpo stronghold.
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The enemy is in the open and we are in the dark. This is the best advantage.
Now that the Japanese turrets have been removed and the risk of early exposure of the team has been avoided, Kong Jie is naturally happy to maximize this advantage.
The main force of the Independent Regiment continued to penetrate into the Japanese stronghold quietly under the cover of darkness.
After the main force of the independent regiment successfully entered, Kong Jie ordered two squads of soldiers to enter each of the two gun towers to replace the commando members in the gun towers.
The freed commando members, as the main force, touched the tip of the knife and secretly killed the Japanese sentries while penetrating into the Japanese stronghold.
There is nothing surprising about the inner perimeter of the Japanese's Changpo stronghold. Except for the amazing defensive power of the two outer turrets, the interior is just some ordinary masonry-structured houses, and some are even earth-and-stone structures.
It is the place where the Japanese and puppet troops in the stronghold usually live and rest.
If the Japs in the county go out to fight, they can temporarily stay in such strongholds on the way.
You don't have to expect the environment of such a living stronghold to be very good. The Japanese and puppet soldiers ate, drank, and had sex here. Domestic garbage was scattered all over the floor, and there was even a foul smell in some places.
Night, twenty-five minutes past two.
Under Kong Jie's order, Wang Leihu and other three battalion commanders each led their teams to complete the secret deployment of troops to the Japanese stronghold on the premise that the commando members secretly killed the Japanese sentries and avoided exposing the troops.
Deployment is actually very simple:
Divide the troops to complete the siege of various residences of the Japanese and puppet troops.
Immediately afterwards, sneak attacks in the dark were launched at the same time to avoid time differences in the successive operations. Japanese and puppet troops were alerted.
Night, exactly two thirty.
As the orderlies waited respectfully, Kong Jie, the highest military officer of the independent regiment, waved his raised right hand down forcefully.
Mixed with the momentum of the war and the iron horse, one word came out of his mouth:
"kill!"
The soldiers of the Independence Regiment, who surrounded all the houses where the Japanese and puppet troops had their shops in the stronghold, launched an attack at the same time.
The gratifying one-sided massacre began, and the fierce gunfire completely broke the dead silence in the dark night of the Changpo stronghold.
Most of the Japanese and puppet soldiers suddenly woke up when the soldiers of the Independence Regiment suddenly broke into the Tongbu. Unfortunately, it was too late. The guns were two or three meters away from their beds.
Before the Japanese and puppet soldiers could recover, they rushed to the end of the bed, grabbed their guns, and the soldiers of the Independence Regiment who rushed into the bunk picked up their guns and started shooting.
Wang Leihu, the commander of the first battalion holding a Czech light machine gun, killed the most happily.
He is worthy of being the most powerful general of the independent regiment. Even if it is a machine gun with a large recoil like the Czech type, Wang Leihu holds the machine gun and puts the tail of the gun on his waist. He can still ensure that the Czech light machine gun fires smoothly and accurately.
Before the Japanese and puppet soldiers had time to get up from the bunk bed, blood flowed all over the bed under the fierce machine gun fire.
This night was destined to be a nightmare for the Japanese and puppet troops in the Changpo stronghold.
The enemy seemed to appear out of thin air.
Launch the most violent attack when they are unprepared.
The outcome waiting for them is death.
Kong Jie captured a puppet soldier alive, and after using death threats to find out the location of the communications department of the Changpo stronghold, he led the team straight to the Japanese communications department.
Kong Jie came for the radio station of the Japanese Communications Department.
Any radio station is an extremely valuable asset in the current Anti-Japanese War era when communication capabilities are not developed.
If Kong Jie is lucky enough to get a radio station in the Changpo stronghold, it will definitely be of great benefit to the future communication development of the independent regiment.
The communication department bungalow at the stronghold was also in charge of soldiers. When Kong Jie and his people arrived, the communication department had already been captured by the soldiers.
"Captain!"
The platoon leader leading the team saluted Kong Jie.
Kong Jie nodded and asked expectantly: "How's it going? Have you got the radio station?"
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